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« on: December 04, 2004, 04:14 PM »

This is cool!!!

I have 4 crystal wine glasses(2 thick, 2 thin, 2 filled with 2/3 cups of water, 2 filled with 4/3 cups of water). I have only tuned 1, and that is to a D major. I am supposed to compose 4 bars of music using a glass harmonica.

For those of you who need to develop your ear for pitched instruments(like me), you should try this.

Try it out!!!
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« Reply #1 on: December 04, 2004, 04:20 PM »

2 filled with 4/3 cups of water

Well, the glasses are filled with 3/3, the table with the 4th Wink

and just for fun ... http://www.glassharmonica.com/

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« Reply #2 on: December 04, 2004, 04:27 PM »

Here's me doing something similar (we perform for charity)!  In the bottom photo, I'm on the right, in the nasty green jacket.  In the Letterman clips I'm second from the right in the middle row - doing the finger "plucking".  Smiley

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« Reply #3 on: December 04, 2004, 04:30 PM »

cool costumes, Grin lol
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« Reply #4 on: December 05, 2004, 06:31 AM »

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I have only tuned 1, and that is to a D major.

Not to nit-pick, but a single note can be  neither major nor minor.  Major and minor describe the relationship of two or more notes--i.e., intervals, triads, chords, or scales.

I had to play tuned glasses in a percussion ensemble piece before.  It was a lot of fun.

A great ear developer for sure!
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« Reply #5 on: December 07, 2004, 10:06 PM »

Fun stuff.  I love filling up glasses with different amounts of water and creating different ones, intervals...

I used to play the bottles on the bar <yes, like Gin, Whiskey, whatever> when I bartended in the islands Grin, til the boss got mad one day when I broke a bottle and outlawed it.  Then, after the customers kept still requesting it, he allowed it if they agreed to buy the bottle if I broke it.  It ended up being quite lucrative for the bar, selling booze by the bottle sometimes instead of by the shot.

Sandra Bullock in "Miss Congeliality" plays some mean glasses by rubbing on the rims.
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